martin heidegger

the beginning exists still. it does not lie behind us, as something long past, but it stands before us.

perhaps only three events emerge as truly ‘historical’ (geschichtlich) in the guise of a change in the fundamental sense of the world, in the ‘essence of truth’:
- the translation of the Greek world into Roman Latin.
- a second crucial shift in the history of being occurs as the entrenchment and transformation of that Roman stamp in medieval Christianity.
- the emergence of the modern metaphysics and science in the seventeenth century, the dominance of questions of method in all pursuit of truth, and the would-be mathematization of nature.